Rebecca Boggs Roberts - Untold Power - part one

WYPL Book Talk

Rebecca Boggs Roberts is a journalist and author, having been a correspondent for NPR, PRI, and the BBC, including the programs Morning Edition, The World, and Talk of the Nation. She is currently the deputy director of events for The Library of Congress. Her first book in 2012, co-authored with Sandra Schmidt, was Historic Congressional Cemetery. Her second was 2017’s Suffragists in Washington, D.C. : The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote. 2020 brought The Suffragist Playbook : Your Guide to Changing the World, co-authored by Lucinda Robb. Today, we’ll begin our discussion of her newest work, Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson, which is published by Viking.